Canon India announced its vision for 2025 in the presence of Mr. Hideki Ozawa, President, Canon Asia Marketing Group (CAMG) and Mr. Kazutada Kobayashi, President & CEO, Canon India. Riding on the organization’s commitment to the country, its vision for 2025 charts the company’s next phase of growth.

With about 25% contribution to the overall revenues of Canon, CAMG has emerged to be amongst the best performing regions, with India becoming the second highest contributor to their growth trajectory in Asia, after China. With their continued focus on innovation and customer delight, the imaging leader has shared their target for Canon Asia to reach the 10 billion US$ mark by 2025.

In 2017, Canon India reported sales of Rs 2,614 crore, marking a double digit growth of 11 per cent (including impact of GST). With Canon India continuing to grow at a double digit growth, Mr. Ozawa also shared his vision of seeing Canon India as the leading contributor for CAMG, by 2025. With its extensive, input to output product portfolio, the organization has seen equal contribution from both B2B and B2C segments. The imaging leader in India is envisioning to close the year with a double digit growth as well. As part of their way forward strategy for India, the organization plans to expand to new domains like medical imaging, surveillance and industrial equipments.

Further, the company has grown steadily in the country to make its presence felt across the nation through its robust regional expansion strategies. With more than two decades in the country, Canon has carved for itself a name that resonates excellence and innovation in the industry. Focussing on regional penetration into Tier-II, Tier-III and Tier-IV cities, Canon is strengthening its retail footprint to spread delight across the country with its experiential retail storesacross divisions.

In order to satisfy modern consumers’ need for variety in storage devices, TEAMGROUP launches multiple products with their own features. The simple, compact C185 and the C186 with classic design both have elegant and concise case, and the smooth retractable capless design makes it easy for consumers to use. The T183 Tool USB drive is the perfect interpretation of practical concepts. It not only has won the 2018 COMPUTEX d&i award, but also was highly praised by the Taiwan Excellence Awards recently. The T183 Tool USB drive is the first to include practical functions like bottle opener, straight ruler, etc. In addition, it also has high speed storage performance, which makes it both trendy and practical.

Constantly innovating in response to the current trend, TEAM GROUP’s new USB drives have sleek ridgeline and smooth streamline design, which creates a trendy and minimalist style. Both USB drives have retractable design that makes it easy for handheld. The special designed structure not only can reduce wear and tear, but also eliminate the trouble of misplacing the cap. Both devices has its own features. The C185 uses USB 2.0 interface and has classic silver characters. The C186 has black base color with premium golden color to emphasize its high quality. It has USB 3.1 Gen1 interface and up to 128GB of storage capacity to satisfy consumers with different needs. Plug and play makes file sharing and backup easier than ever.

With a superb appearance, the T183 Tool USB drive is highly praised globally and has won the 2018 COMPUTEX d&i award and the Taiwan Excellence Awards. It has practical and essential tools like bottle opener, straight ruler, pocket knife, key chai, etc. The durable metal body is made by top class Zinc alloy forging technology and has bold lines with angular and one-piece design. It uses COB assembly process to offer multi-protection such as waterproof, dust-proof and shockproof, etc., making consumers be at ease. The creative magnetic feature allows it to be easily placed on iron surface. It is your best little helper no matter you are in the office or at home.

India’s biggest manufacturer and exporter of wide format inkjet digital printers ColorJet India has recently appointed Digital Hires from Spain, as their distributor in the markets of Spain and Portugal. Digital Hires which was set up in 1992, is a successful and renowned distributor in Spain, Portugal and the UK, of digital treatment of images and printing systems for the printing and audiovisual industry.

The Spanish company will be marketing all the variants of digital printers from ColorJet like UV, Soft Signage and Eco Solvent. Digital Hires will also be providing after sales service for these printing machines. ColorJet offers digital printers in several configurations in speed and print heads, which meet the varying needs of Sign & Signage printing. Signage products comprise entry-level solvent printers to high end UV and soft signage printers.

For applications in Sign & Signage, ColorJet has the Polo Turbo, Softjet Plus, Softjet Grand, Irisjet, Irisjet Pro and the Neptune. In UV printers, the company manufactures the Vulcan, Verve Hybrid, Verve, Verve Mini and Verve LED, while in Eco-Solvent printers; it offers the Polo HQ, Aurajet Series II and the Neptune HQ.

“This partnership is a good reason to feel happy. Entering into these two important markets with such a respected company which specialises in digital inkjet products is another reason to be euphoric,” Mr Binoj Anthony, International Business Head at ColorJet India Ltd said.

“After the signing of the agreement with ColorJet, we immediately participated in CPRINT MADRID 2018 and set up a booth for showing ColorJet digital printers. The feedback we got was tremendous and made us realise that there is a wide market scope for ColorJet printers,” Angel Jimenz, CEO at Digital Hires also said.

DIGISOL Systems Ltd., a leading provider of the Networking products, extends its switches portfolio with the launch of DG-FS1006PF- a six port Fast Ethernet PoE unmanaged switch. In order to offer exceptional performance in a compact form factor, the device supports 4 PoE Ports & 2 Uplink Ports. The switch also features CCTV mode which allows to extend Ethernet connectivity upto 250m on PoE ports with VLAN support, perhaps making it an ideal choice for Surveillance requirement.

The DG-FS1006PF Switch offers 6 x10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet ports with 4 Power over Ethernet ports. These PoE ports are IEEE 802.3af and IEEE 802.3at compliant and can supply PoE Power to PoE devices. The existing Ethernet cables can be used to power up IEEE 802.3af/ 802.3at compliant network devices. This eliminates the need of an external power source and power cabling for such devices. The switch provides flexibility to users for connecting a PoE or non PoE device. The PoE devices connected to switch can be easily identified by the separate PoE LED status indicators.

To ensure maximum uptime for data and power transfer, the switch offers backplane capacity of 1.2Gbps, while the data transfer is at an average of 200Mbps per port at full duplex mode. This allows every node to perform at their maximum performance.

The plug and play feature of DG-FS1006PF saves customers time and resources when it comes to installing the device. It’s auto-negotiation and auto-sensing feature makes the configuration simple, and enables deployment of security solutions quick. Additionally, it’s Auto MDI/MDI-X feature eliminates the need of using a crossover cable or dedicated uplink port. These features enable the switch to operate out of the box without any manual configuration.

The device comes with a toggle button that allows customers to switch to CCTV mode. Under this mode, ports 1-4 will be isolated from each other but can communicate with uplink port 5-6. At the same time, it will set ports 1-4 to full 10Mbps speed & can extend Ethernet connectivity up to 250m which can help extend the distance without adding additional switch or repeater to install the device at higher distance.

Kaspersky Lab has been spreading its wings deeper globally over the past few years. With a steady increase in demand for industrial, business and personal cyber security products in India, Kaspersky has further strengthened its foothold with the appointment of Smart Technologies (BD) Ltd. (STBL) as its distribution partner in Bangladesh.

Kaspersky Lab in association with SBTL conducted a press meet on 14th November 2018 at Bangabandhu International Conference Center, Bangladesh. The conference saw Kaspersky Lab along with their newest distribution partner together discussing how bullish the Bangladesh market looks for them and that they are looking forward to expansion in the region.

With this appointment, Kaspersky Lab is expanding its distribution network in the region to support the growing market demand. Established in 1998, SBTL has a strong presence in the deepest pockets of Bangladesh. It has over 1200 employees and 180 service engineers that are extremely proficient in hardware, software, ITES, networking and ICT products.

Shrenik Bhayani, General Manager, South Asia, Kaspersky Lab, said “We are thrilled to have SBTL on board with us as our distributors in Bangladesh. Our strategy moving forward is to aggressively fight the cybercriminals targeting this region. The infamous 2016 Bangladesh Bank Heist of close to USD 1billion opened the eyes of many, it is a lesson that no region is completely secure and that cybersecurity needs to be given utmost importance. We have also seen a lot of interest from the country for long and Kaspersky Lab has been working on a systematic expansion plan for it.

Bangladesh is an upcoming market, with a great demand for all our B2B as well as B2C products. We found STBL a suitable fit that understands the landscape, the people and the requirements of the region. We look forward to a great partnership ahead!”

Mohd. Zahirul Islam, Managing Director – STBL said, “Kaspersky Lab is one of the most respected names in the world of cybersecurity and we are very excited to join hands with them. With 20 years of experience, we are confident of taking its world-class products to all corners of Bangladesh. Like they have done globally, Kaspersky’s products are sure to save Bangladeshi people and businesses a lot of money and time in preventing cyber threats. Our teams will work seamlessly together and we are sure this will be a productive partnership not just for Kaspersky Lab and STBL, but also for the people of Bangladesh.”
The conference concluded with a loud and clear message that Kaspersky Lab is now stronger and bigger in Bangladesh with the help of SBTL. The event ended on a powerful note of completely eradicating cybercriminals in the region.

VIAVI Solutions announced the launch of CellAdvisor 5G, the next-generation base station analyzer used by mobile service providers globally, which is capable of validating and troubleshooting 5G radio access. In addition to industry-first features addressing 5G TF and 5G NR standards requirements, CellAdvisor 5G includes usability enhancements, developed with customers, that further improve technician experience and deployment speed. The instrument was successfully used in the roll-out of the first commercially available 5G network in the United States.

Leading mobile service providers are moving from lab verification of 5G technology to field trials, and are now announcing scale deployments to support commercial service as early as 2018. As fleets of technicians and contractors begin to install and activate the radio access network (RAN), they need to be equipped with portable, feature-rich and easy-to-use instruments that require minimal training.

CellAdvisor 5G was built from the ground up with practical field deployment needs in mind. VIAVI leveraged the 15-year track record of this product line, and the resulting relationships the company has with its Tier-1 customers, to develop the newest member of this family of analyzers. Key features include: support for beam-forming analysis, massive MIMO and carrier aggregation; spectrum and interference analysis in Frequency Region 1 (FR1, sub-6 GHz) and Frequency Region 2 (FR2, millimeter wave); flexibility to support wider channel bandwidth configurations (5 MHz to 100 MHz in FR1, and 100 MHz to 400 MHz in FR2); touchscreen functionality; and cloud-based asset and configuration management via the StrataSync platform.

“VIAVI has taken an early lead in 5G testing, and continues to expand its investments,” said Kevin Oliver, Vice President and General Manager, Converged Instruments and Virtual Test, VIAVI. “Virtually every 5G base station in the field today has been verified in the lab using VIAVI instruments and systems. Now, as a number of leading carriers are moving from the lab to large-scale field deployments, CellAdvisor 5G will be the fundamental tool that technicians and contractors will need to install and maintain these 5G deployments.”

VIAVI offers a range of 5G validation, deployment and assurance solutions that accelerate testing, facilitate network evolution and speed time to market. The 3GPP-compliant TM500 Network Tester, largely regarded as the de facto standard for wireless network testing, has seen significant market adoption for testing throughout the 5G R&D lifecycle and also is used to stress-test network performance prior to launch of new services. Together with the 5G Core Emulator, CellAdvisor 5G and NITRO Mobile solutions, VIAVI offers a powerful combination of end-to-end testing, validation and assurance solutions that support the complete 5G network lifecycle from the lab to the field.